I was recently sorting out a box of old papers and came across a lot of leaflets and articles that I saved years ago. They were about healthy eating and all suggested low fat, high carb. I threw them all out but looked through them first. I was moved to tears by what I found. I was shocked to find a leaflet from World Cancer Research Fund dated 1992 entitled 'A fat lot of good that will do you' - a leaflet showing how reducing fat intake would not only help protect you from cancer but also coronary problems too. I hadn't been aware that cancer charities were promoting low fat too.
Next I found a free leaflet from Woman's Realm - The Good Fat Diet guide. This was promoting So Good soya products which were said to lower cholesterol (in a similar way to Benecol I presume). The diet was high carb low fat. On the back was the following article about a TV presenter.
TV presenter **** tries to keep as fit as possible. As the mother of two small boys with a hectic working, life she's very careful about what she eats...
She knows well how devastating heart disease can be as her father died of a heart attack.
'It's made me realise that you can do something to help prevent problems', she says. 'One step is to lower high levels of cholesterol in your blood and to eat sensibly. In Japan and China, where soya beans are eaten regularly, the instance of heart disease is much lower than our own. By using delicious SO GOOD soy drink in cooking or on cereals you get all the health benefits of soya on a daily basis.
'This Good Fat Diet helps to keep cholesterol levels down. The Cholesterol-buster menu has been devised by the makers of SO GOOD to help you and your partner lower the levels of bad blood cholesterol and achieve a healthy weight. Make a fresh start and a positive decision for better health. I have and I feel much the better for it. SO can you!'
Now I know none of us know what's in store for us, and there's really no point saying 'If only' , but I can't help wondering if things would have turned out better for the celebrity mentioned if she had followed a LCHF diet and not tried to lower her cholesterol. We now know that it's glucose that causes inflammation, and all carbs turn to glucose. We also now know that inflammation can cause/aggravate cancer and that cholesterol is there to protect against inflammation.
The celebrity featured on the leaflet was Caron Keating.
Who knows what might have been, but just maybe fewer carbs and higher cholesterol might have been enough to heal the inflammation before the cancer started? Yes, I know we can't possibly make that connection for certain, but the title of this thread is 'Are we really wrong about fat?' and above is a tiny bit of 'evidence' that seems to suggest we could have been horrendously wrong in the past.
Several months back I remember Gloria Hunniford on TV talking about the con artists telling people that apricot kernels etc and all sorts of weird potions could cure cancer. She said it was heart-breaking to see her lovely daughter given hope and have it dashed away again. These people who preyed on those who desperately wanted to live were sick, callous human beings.
How much worse then are the scientists and charities that promoted the low fat high carb diets that have made so many of us sick?
